Forced To Marry…. But Not To Love
Disclaimer: I don't own Glee…obviously!
Description- What happens when the US Government puts a marriage law into place? Glee characters are in their senior year & are all 18 (so legally able to get married) for the story's purposes Finn and Quinn never broke up (and she didn't get pregnant but he still likes Rachel and Rachel is with Puck but still secretly likes Finn). Oh and Matt didn't leave ND.
Chapter 1: The Letters
Rachel's POV
Today I got the biggest shock of my life. Mr Shue called us into the choir room and he was with Principal Figgins (Figgins never comes to our Glee rehearsals) so I was really nervous (and Rachel Barbra Berry never gets nervous….. except from at my NYADA audition when I choked, but Carmen Tibideaux gave me a second chance and it was 2nd time lucky so I'm still on my way to being a big star!). Anyway Figgins was there with a bunch of official looking letters and I wondered if they were from the show choir committee saying they would take my suggestion of having "Barbra Streisand" as the theme for this years nationals. Sadly that was not to be. "Children, I come bearing bad news, the US Government has recently passed a law saying that all Americans between the ages of 18-65 must be married by the end of the month and produce children by this time in 2 years due to the amount of the population wiped out by the recent flu epidemic. They have sent these letters to show who you will be matched with so please read carefully as the guidelines for your marriage will be outlined. Good day glee clubbers and once again I'm so sorry".
"Well what are waiting for let's open the letters" said Quinn looking adoringly up at Finn (I swear I want to gag every time they do that!). "Who's going first?"
"I guess I will" said Mr Shue. He opened the envelope very slowly and read quite slowly too, the suspense was killing me!. "Who'd you get Mr Shue?" asked Finn.
Mr Shue replied, obviously stunned. "Sue"
Our mouths all gaped wide open.
Finn's POV
No one spoke for what felt like ages. We were all too stunned. We just assumed Mr Shue would get Miss Pillsbury- they'd been serious for a while but hadn't gotten engaged and now Mr Shue had to marry Coach Sylvester- "Well we didn't see that coming!", "who's next?" I asked cheerfully. Artie went next quickly scanning before saying "Tina". Tina looked so sad- she and Mike had been so happy and now that was being taken from her. It was so unfair!.
Tina's POV
I didn't know what to think. I mean yeah I like Artie and All but I never expected to marry him. I didn't like all the attention being on me so said "Blaine why don't you open yours?". I knew he was hoping to be paired with Kurt but after being paired with Artie and Mr shue being paired with Sue of all people, I knew it wouldn' t work like that. Blaine looked up after reading his letter wide mouthed and crying. "I got Sebastian".
Blaine POV
Why? WHY? WHY?. Me and Kurt's relationship was going so well and now we were to be broken up because of some stupid law!. I may have liked Sebastian a little at one point but after he threw that rock salt slushie at my face I hate him!. I have no idea what the US government saw in me and Sebastian that wasn't there in my relationship with Kurt but I was fuming!. "THEY CAN'T DO THIS TO US! THIS IS OUR LIFE AND THEY WANT TO MESS IT UP!". "Calm down honey" my darling Kurt said to me but I couldn't calm down with the knowledge that MY Kurt would taken by another man or woman. I stormed out of the choir room leaving the other member of New Directions with wide open mouths and shocked faces.
Kurt's POV
Now don't get me wrong I was absolutely fuming as well!. However I felt that the Blaine marrying my sworn enemy would be a topic of conversation later, once we knew who everyone else was paired with. I was totally panicking so stop myself hyperventilating I thought it would be best if the attention in the room turned to someone else. "So who'd everyone else get?"
Everything went quite quickly. Everyone else opened all together.
"Puck" said Quinn and although everyone had thought she was hoping for Finn (even though we all know he likes Rachel) she went to sit next to him. Rachel graciously moved out of the way.
"Brittany" said Mike. I swear I could see Santana mentally coming up with the ways to kill the government and of course Mike.
I opened mine. "OMG I got Karofsky". The entire room fell silent and then the world turned black as I fell to the floor in shock.
I woke up a few minutes later but Mr Shue sent me off to the nurse to deal with the shock.
Rachel's POV
I don't think anyone could believe that the government had been stupid enough to pair off Karofsky and Kurt. However we all knew we had to find out who we'd got so we carried on.
"Sam" said Mercedes unable to keep the grin off her as Sam came over to her and gave her what had to be one of the longest kisses ever!.
"Ok if you guys could stop with your Pathetic Displays of Affection. I got myself a Matt as my fiancé" Santana said.
There was no shock there. Before Santana had realised she liked Brittany she and Matt had dated. However there was no mistaking the disappointment in her eyes as she read out the name that wasn't Brittany's.
"Sugar" Rory said. He looked distinctly happy about this and so did Sugar as she bounded across the room.
"Wait a minute, Berry that means you got…." Santana said but I interrupted her.
"Finn" I said.
